very beautiful
Show HN: Sorted CSS Colors – Sort the named CSS colors in a nice way
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Re: Show HN: Sorted CSS Colors – Sort the named CSS colors in a nice way
#162For speed's sake could a hover or tap bring out the hex code? I understand that was not the function of your site. It would be cool to just be able to quickly see/use the hex if one is searching for color combos.
The site is literally about CSS color names for 256-bit colors, it’s not a palette site with beautiful colors. This is a ridiculous feature request, but I can’t say I’m not used to this.
This may be a use case perspective. For your use case, knowing hex code is superfluous, and that is your mental model. I interface between researchers, designers and developers. If someone in my environment says "I want this cadet blue', the first thing others ask is "what is the hex code".
Re: Show HN: Sorted CSS Colors – Sort the named CSS colors in a nice way
#163This was really fun to play with. Interesting patterns going on there.
I think /r/InternetIsBeautiful/ may like this.
Re: Show HN: Sorted CSS Colors – Sort the named CSS colors in a nice way
#164This is definitely a cool way of exploring CSS colors. But, serious question: does anyone actually use CSS colors except for a handful of the basics ("red", "blue") for prototyping/debugging? I mean, the idea of typing "background-color: lightsalmon;" just feels so bizarre to me. Whenever I've needed to come up with colors from scratch, I'll just start with an intuitive best guess -- e.g. "hsl(30, 80%, 50%)" -- and t…
I like the names ones due to lack of imagination: I just try a few names ones until it looks good. I have used light salmon before! In fact I used some names ones on a side project today.
Re: Show HN: Sorted CSS Colors – Sort the named CSS colors in a nice way
#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
This might be a dumb question but how would named colors be more consistent across monitors? I thought they mapped to the same RGB value so there would be no difference between 'red' and #FF0000.
I remembered it wrongly. It wasn't about named colors, but "web-safe colors" that can be displayed by 256 color displays directly, without having to fallback to the closest color or by using dithering. Some of them happened to have a name attached to it. Don't know if the original 16 named colors are also all safe colors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors#Web-safe_colors
I weirdly miss colour limitations!
That said where is my UV value?
Re: Show HN: Sorted CSS Colors – Sort the named CSS colors in a nice way
#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
I prefer to use named colors in my own CSS layouts. "lightsalmon" is more descriptive to me than "#FFA07A" or "rgb(255, 160, 122)" or "hsl(17, 100%, 73.9%)" at a glance.
I have had my favorite hex memorized since about 2012: #07D0EB
Nice, nearly analogous to mine (#004CFF) [0].